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Tomorrow marks the hundredth observance of International Womenâs Day. Today a panel of experts in womenâs issues met at Stetson University College of Law to talk about the current status of women worldwide. The panel reflected on gains made in womenâs rights, but also confronted the work that still needs to be done.

Imagine being forced to marry against your will. Or being targeted for sexual assault during war time. Or getting aci...

Coming up today weâll hear about the Conflict in the Congo-- in which more than 5 million people have been killed. Itâs one of the worldâs most under-reported stories. Later weâll talk with some parenting experts on raising children in a peaceful and productive way.

But first some listener comments about yesterdayâs program. All five of the comments were about the last few callers who were urging low income people to go to college and who were defending controversial talk show ho...

Eric Reeves has spent the past nine years working as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the United States and internationally. He is one of several contributors to a new book called, The World and Darfur : International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan.

WMNF spoke with him on Monday, asked about his contribution to the book, about how many lives have been lost or displaced because of the situation in Darfur.

Human rights activist John Pendergast spoke last night at Eckerd College about the continuing genocide in Darfur.

John Pendergast is co-author of the New York Times best seller, Not on Our Watch, and co-founder of the Enough organization, a project to end genocide and crimes against humanity. He shared the story of a woman named Amena he met in Darfur; she was living under a tree shortly after two of her four children were brutally killed by the Janjaweed.

How will the Obama administration deal with and prevent genocide? Edward Kissi, an assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida, says that in many of his campaign speeches, Obama referenced genocide in order to condemn and draw attention to the mass killings in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Kissi suggests that one reason was to stress his âchangeâ campaign theme by contrasting the failure to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda with restoring ...